Michael G. sends "Another Immigrant Contributing to Society: The second time he illegally entered the US was 2016. No doubt the administration was too busy importing additional votes for the Democratic party to worry about a minor thing like stopping the entry of a convicted attempted murderer."

Michael G. sends, "The world is full of stupid and angry people, and most of them live in this horrible place." Which segues to:

"Jizya is a per capita yearly tax historically levied by Islamic states on certain non-Muslim subjects...." Yes, I am equating the Gaystapo's oppression of non-pervert majorities to Islam's oppression of non-Muslim minorities. Could say some things aboutSouthAfrica too.

A while back I described, "The city council had been enamored of Arboria on Adams' World, and the Maze in Rosalia on Albion. During Aurora's last visit, the tallest building in Arriod had been twelve stories; now there were six over thirty. Nor were they simple towers blocking sunlight, but something approaching ziggurats or step pyramids, each level boasting patios and gardens. Some even had soil two or more stories deep in which trees could take root, providing little patches of forest in the sky. Bridges connected these buildings at multiple levels, some appearing to be made of arched brick, others of riveted steel and suspension cables, still others of wood, with ivy creeping along them and up the walls of the buildings themselves. Still other bridges seemed to be insubstantial and fairie-like, with delicately-sweeping arches of armorglas giving unobstructed views to the surface a hundred and more meters below. It was a city park above the city. Aurora and her Family found it charming."Kinda like this but on a much larger scale, and as a deliberate and coordinated program.

To which dot connect a recent SCOTUS ruling on gay wedding cakes, "so narrow as to not set any sort of precedent whatsoever." No help from that direction....

Way back here I pondered people who spend a lot of money on gear but can't actually hit anything. Get some training and then getsomecompetition. -Of course this has relevance; the government thugs really believe their "training" of hardly a box of cartridges per year makes them superior to us, the true enthusiasts, who will fire three or four or ten times that in a weekend without ever hurting anybody. (The worst injury I've ever seen in fifteen years of competition shooting was the guy who broke his wrist mountain-biking with his son the weekend before.) Which segues to:

"...Sheriff Mark Napier, local police, the FBI, and Homeland Security wouldn't respond to their calls for help or requests for cadaver dogs" to investigate a possible child-sex-slavery-and-murder camp. Is Napier getting a percentage too?

Remember, peasant, nobody needs an AK-47 for home defense. -I used to denigrate the AR family, in these same pages, as being underpowered, unreliable, and made of soft gooey aluminum. Now I build them.... As for the Great Divide between AR and AK, my answer would be "yes", based on logistics - which one can you resupply from the corpses of your enemies?

I also wrote, "Energy-storage had improved vastly since the Escape; the Casetti M437 plasma pistol Danner and much of the crew usually wore carried 27 standard charges of 1.3 kilojoules each. The New Texas Arms MkLX rifle, Marine Corps issue, carried fifty charges of 6.4kJ in the standard configuration; the Delta variant took power from the Mobile Infantry's armor." Working on that sort of thing too.

David "LittleAdolf" Hogg getsSWATted. I'm really ambivalent about that. I mean, this is exactly the kind of totalitarian jackbootism he's demanding be applied to us, right? Best case, it will alert more people to the dangers of militarized police. -Which phrase is an insult to the military, yes.

Which segues to, "In a civil society, [Broward County Deputy Scot FILTHY COWARD Peterson would] be in the stocks in the center of town as people waked by to rub s***, literal animal s***, in his face. Maybe it’s time we bring that back."

"One has to wonder if this is not a deliberate strategy by the current governor of Virginia to deliberately harass those citizens who legally carry under state law." I'm not wondering anymore. The steroid-addled subliterate incompetent sociopaths in government costume can't stand the idea of anyone being more competent in any field, or being able to resist their state-sanctioned predations.

"If justice were being done, the courts would be overwhelmed with trials of serial Muslim rapists and other Muslim felons -- as well as with the trials of the British police, politicians, journalists, social workers, and others who covered their crimes up over a period of decades."Everything Hitler did was "legal" too.

Foreign Correspondent Jacob N., Trapped in New York, asks: "Is that what we’re calling it now? So apparently it’s now 'gender confirmation surgery' rather than 'gender reassignment surgery'. I’m reminded of this passage from Nineteen Eighty-Four: 'Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. Every concept that can ever be needed will be expressed by exactly one word, with its meaning rigidly defined and all its subsidiary meanings rubbed out and forgotten.' This calls to mind the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis about language determining thought. It’s very difficult to discuss concepts if your language has no words for them.
"For the most part, I have little concern about what people do to themselves. What bugs me is that the term 'gender' has a very specific meaning from a biological point of view, and linguistic games like 'gender confirmation surgery' disguise the physical reality of what is being done and hides it under this layer of emotional goodthink that is illogical and unscientific. These sort of things encourage the idea that, somehow, how you feel should outweigh observational reality and scientific, logical methodology.
"This kind of 'thinking' leads to the extremely invalid conclusion that all opinions and ideas are equally valid, which is probably the most pernicious contribution of postmodernism. Counterfactual ideas and opinions have no validity at all, because they contradict observable reality. But I guess the goal is to eliminate the notion of observable reality completely.
"Sorry for the rant, but this thing really irks me."

In this horrible economic-death-spiral place - and yours too I bet - there are parking meters, and parking enforcement officers, who blatantly lie and issue false tickets to generate revenue for their masters, from which they get a de facto percentage. (How do such creatures live with themselves.) Robbery in costume, backed up by armed robbery in other costumes. Well, this discourages people from going downtown, right? So the shops and attractions lose money and go out of business or relocate, so the city government loses their various tax/fee/permit/extortion/graft revenues. Meanwhile gangs and druggies and layabouts set up camp on the very steps of the Portland Art Museum and their needles crunch underfoot as one goes to opera night (emerging after the show to find a fraudulent parking ticket stuck on their car) - and then they stop going to the opera, and they don't spend money on a nice dinner in a swanky restaurant afterward anymore either. And more places go out of business and fewer people want anything to do with downtown and more scum take over more sidewalks and more places go out of business and so on. And how does the city government propose to make up this financial shortfall, necessary for their vital, vital services like catered veeegan luncheons for the Third Assistant Undersecretary to the Fourth Deputy Director to the Special Assistant to the Mayor's Cousin's Niece? By installing even more parking meters and stepping up enforcement.

Aaaaand New Jersey. Blaming and punishing and robbing at the point of a government gun everyone who didn't hurt anybody.

I have observed in these pages how a bad and/or dirty cop will screw up publicly enough to get fired, then quickly get hired in another jurisdiction, some of them, depending on length of "service", getting two or three tax-funded pensions. Michael G. sends, I was right, again.

They Are All So F***ing Ignorant, Chapter MMMMMCDLXVII. And they insist on forcing that ignorance down all of our throats at the point of a government gun of the very same kind they don't want us to have.

So yesterday I was ranting on city governments and predatory enforcement of made-up malum prohibitum and widespread waste and fraud and maybe you thought I was a little over-the-top. BUT THEN THIS HAPPENS. -And of course such proposals are not a new idea.

Which segues to, Michael G. sends the Don't Go to College, Where Due Process Goes to Die o' the Day: "False rape accuser sentenced to a year in jail - less the time she's already spent in jail, and the offense calls for SIX years in jail, but she made a plea bargain. I know people say 'baby steps' about small improvements from the status quo but this literally is baby steps. And the college is claiming that the falsely accused men suffered no consequences. And if you believe that you will happily pay tuition for that college."

Foreign Correspondent Jacob N., Trapped in New York, sends: "They don’t like being on the receiving end: So an armed 'wellness team' shows up at Chelsea Manning’s house after Manning tweeted a suicide threat. Aside from the Newspeak name of the goon squad, Manning is very upset by this, calling it a 'police state' action. Well, lefties like Manning and company created and pushed the idea of 'wellness interventions', 'gun violence restraining orders', and 'extreme risk protection interventions' and placed the duty to enforce these on police, for whom all problems are nails and all answers are large hammers. The article is correct in its assertion that armed police aren’t the proper intervention in a mental health crisis, but is totally oblivious to the fact that people like Manning and the left created this mess in the first place."

To which dot bears repeating, Tucson Tom, benevolent donor of the Queen, sends: "Isn’t that sad that calling the police to someone’s house is attempted murder? But it is true." (Unless, of course, it's not.)

Michael G. sends, "Golden rice, which has been genetically modified to prevent blindness in undernourished children, was judged safe to eat last week by the US Food and Drug Administration.""But why did they kowtow to the Left in delaying it so long?" Beeeeecause the left cares more about power, any kind of power over anyone and anything, more than preventing blindness in undernourished children? Or, since "the most important approvals are still awaited in the Philippines and Bangladesh, where the rice could have the greatest impact", maybe they only care about certain kinds of children...?

Likewise, the other day Michael G. sent an article on advanced prosthetics, to which dot I connected to my own fictional artificially-intelligent gynoid and then this happens.

Finished Forged in Blood, a collection set in Michael Z. Williamson's Freehold universe, which follows one sword across three thousand years of battle. The emotional impact, cumulative and separate, was comparable to the Prophet Heinlein's "The Long Watch". Now beginning Flint & co.'s Grantville Gazette VIII, to be followed by resuming Eric Frank Russell's The Great Explosion, to be followed by the eARC of Ringo & Correia's Monster Hunter Memoirs: Saints.

In the place where Germany used to be, Michael G. sends, "14 year old German Jew raped, murdered by 'refugee'. Note that the party that the establishment says are Nazis is the one calling attention to this and trying to stop it from happening again. Not really surprising, nowadays the Left says the Jews are Nazis and those who say they want to kill all the Jews are the oppressed victims."

Michael G. sends: "Harris County TX registrar fights to keep non-citizens on voting rolls. Everybody knows that it is supposed to be the government choosing their electorate, not the electorate choosing their government." But massive vote fraud doesn't exist...

"Requiring law enforcement to respond to an active shooter, from outside a school, has been shown to take too much time." If they don't just run and hide instead. But nnnooooo, no, gotta have that Magic Fairy-Dust of Government! Can't let the peasants do anything for themselves.

-Now, this Miguel guy at GFZ, obviously he's on our side; he points out police abuse of power, low standards, reckless behavior and so on. But then he appears to want those same people to throw grenades in babies' faces. Miguel, dude, both ways you cannot have it.

To which dot connect, I never acquired the coffee habit but I used to drink a lot of caffeinated soda. Way back in 2003, as I was beginning to shoot competitively, I weaned myself off the stuff, replacing it with - coincidentally - Country Time Lemonade, the powder for which I will continue to buy in the 2.33-kilogram can. But this is not Lighter News because there exist soulless unquestioning sadistic sociopaths in government costumes who would terrorize and rob a litle girl with a lemonade stand and expect to be rewarded for doing so.

The gun club I used to be a member of - established 1960 - has had some difficulties over the years with a particular downrange neighbor, who actually drilled holes in their own house and dropped obviously-unfired projectiles next to them to falsely accuse the club of being unsafe. Given all the fake hate crimes, the imaginary "Russian" "collusion" for somethingorother, the blatant lies and hypocrisy directed toward Our Kind for decades, a reasonable person has to wonder if this is more of the same.

Michael G. sends a lingering shred of sanity in the Army. -Commie Cadet filing suit at taxpayer expense in 3, 2, 1.... With bonus tone-deaf hypocrisy from his new leash-holders: "Spenser Rapone is a former Army Ranger and Infantry Officer recently separated from the military for speaking out against its imperialistviolence."

Okay. So. I avoid shopping at Brownell's because they still carry HS Precision products, which were infamously endorsed by escaped murderer Lon Horiuchi, and because Brownell's has a whole separate lawenforcement catalog besides. Still, Brownell's is a major supplier of parts and tools, they sponsor big competitions and, I admit, do some things for the Cause. Now connect all those dots to the looming-for-weeks-now threat of YouTube arbitrarily erasing Our Kind from their platform, and then this actually does happen:

Considering that much of my own content is showing people how guns work, I can expect to be censored as soon as GoogTube notices my existence. Fortunately I have most of the important stuff saved in files which I can just upload again... somewhere.

I live alone (with a floofykitteh). The only humans I interact with on a regular basis are either at work, or on the internet. With very few exceptions, I work with stupid people, whom I would not trust with firearms or invite along on a range day. Can yourshooting buddies be trusted?

Michael G. sends, "Showing ID to enter a military base is unfair to illegals! That is apparently the Left's new standard after a pizza delivery man was detained while entering a military base because he didn't have ID, and subsequently picked up by ICE because he was an illegal alien."

"'Extreme risk protection order' is polite terminology for abrupt and permanent gun confiscation."What order would you not obey?

Which question has been answered many times: None. It bears repeating that "This family had their life savings stolen - yes, f***ing stolen - by an illegitimate act of a government gone mad." Never mind the Muslim-immigrant-returning-to-a-Muslim-country that is not the point. Asset Forfeiture is purely evil and anyone who performs or benefits from it deserves to be publicly hung by the neck until dead.

It also bears repeating that "No one who has your best interest at heart would ever demand that you remain helpless."

Training for armed teachers in Occupied Colorado-of-all-places. Not that government should be running the schools in the first place.

I'm still ticked and alarmed and untrusting of Trump after the bump-stock, "due-process-later" thing, but then he goes and does this.

A while back I wrote, "The Republic, or most of it, approached definition as a post-scarcity society. Once fabber technology, which often meant nanotechnology, became available, anyone could make anything at any time - including flocks of robots to tend crops. Despite this, even on worlds with established spaceports and even space navies, there were still pockets or regions of poverty and low technology. Illyria was still one such, though Queen Agnieszka was working hard to change her kingdom. Eyan was another - even two Monticellan centuries after their liberation from the Terran Empire, some remote Tribes still hunted with flint spears, while starships of the Eyani National Navy orbited above them."Yeah....

On campus, Michael G. sends the Incoherent Psychotic Gibberish o' the Day: "Dog parks are oppressive rape culture. The premise of a recent academic paper. I warn you, reading the excerpts of the paper will leave you dumber."In this horrible place.

More lying oathbreakers from the Clinton and Obama regimes' attempts to purge the military. So, yeah, there are some people who would obey orders to drop bombs on American citizens - but if we make it through that phase, and we will, we're gonna go Vietnam and Afghanistan on their treasonous asses and we're better shots.

I have also said that police and military are not the same, and that every attempt to make them so ends in atrocity. Michael G. sends a timely example: "Military cops are cops first, military second, as this former AF cadet found out when he was expelled for demerits he accumulated doing undercover work OSI recruited him for, and OSI never showed up for his expulsion hearings even though they promised him they would."Never trust a cop of any kind.

I recently wrote, "...[T]he government-run schools of the time - in which attendance was mandatory, with punishments for parents who did not subject their children to the system! - treated students as little better than violent criminals, violating their privacy, suppressing their speech, often prescribing mood-altering drugs to any child who showed independence of thought. When children were bullied in the schoolyard, the victim was punished as severely as the attacker." I often say, in these pages, burn the government schools. Michael G. sends the example of the day: "Big surprise: People who say we have to change what is actually working 'for the children' are just after power and don't give a rat's ass about children's futures and well being. I'll bet her only regret about the killing at the school she is principal of is that a gun wasn't used so she can't blood dance for gun control."

I demand jail time or a noose for any hypocritical thief-with-a-badge who ever "confiscated" an "illegal" knife, and for any prosecutor-persecutor or unstable-freak-in-black-robes who upheld such bigotry.

Hey remember how we were called "paranoid" and "homophobic" for warning against a homosexual agenda to corrupt children? And note how all those "pride" marches just happen to take place on Father's Day....

But only police can be trusted with guns because they have all that "training". Civil war is horrible to contemplate but if that's what we're going up against I kinda like our odds.

Told you, never trust a cop of any kind: "This case illustrates the pitfalls of giving a statement to police."

Nor is it paranoia if Oregon courts really do support gun confiscators. "We believe the court has chosen to ignore Oregon statutes and has grossly bent the rules to accommodate the gun grabbers who filed a very late ballot measure. Now we have the Oregon Supreme Court working for the supporters of gun confiscation to do all they can to make sure this outrageous measure gets on the ballot."

"...[T]he failure of [Broward County Sheriff’s Office and Sheriff Scott Israel] to protect the kids at MSD High was the norm and not the exception."A reasonable person, familiar with current and recent events, has to legitimately ask how many of them are getting a percentage.

Two centuries ago it was said that “When Sir Robert Peel proposed to organize the police force of London, Englishmen said openly that half a dozen throats cut in Whitechapel every year would be a cheap price to pay for keeping such an instrument of tyranny out of the State’s hands.”AND THEY WERE RIGHT.

If they come for your guns, if they come for you, kill them, kill all they send, then hunt down and kill who sent them. Because they are going to murder you anyway and you have nothing left to lose.

Years ago now I wrote"...[G]overnment supplies rotting in warehouses, government funds evaporating under corruption and graft, the needy never getting a fraction of it, except when news cameras were present"AND I WAS RIGHT, AGAIN.

Michael G. sends, "Gang of 13 year olds armed with knives! Youth football team uses knives to rescue couple from car crash. Well we can't have that sort of thing! Where are the zero tolerance suspensions? The criminal charges against the kids and their coach?" And again, I demand jail time or a noose for any hypocritical thief-with-a-badge who ever "confiscated" an "illegal" knife, and for any prosecutor-persecutor or unstable-freak-in-black-robes who upheld such bigotry.

I've already predicted that Starbucks will apologize itself right out of business. Schadenfreude.

The other day I said I work with mostly stupid people. Decades ago there was a book on that topic. IT'S TRUE.

Michael G. sends, "SPLC says real epidemic is white on black crime, and that black on white crime doesn't exist." Um, no, when my apartment was burglarized some fifteen years ago, it was black people who did it. And if any of my property ever was recovered it was vandalized, or ended up in some sticky-fingered sociopath's personal collection. I'm seeing little moral or functional difference between the racist thugs who steal my stuff, and the costumed thugs who are supposed to "protect" me from them.

Which segues to:

Michael G. asks, "Are prosecutors out of control? I think we already know the answer. I can think of several other cases besides the ones mentioned in this article."

In libertarian science fiction, not least my own, the United Nations are painted as the villains. "These are the monsters that the #Resistance wants to bring in and judge us." And I'm reminded of the very early days of Project Appleseed, when the practice targets simulated UN "peacekeeping" armored vehicles and illustrated which points would be vulnerable to rifle fire.

AND THEN I LOST MY JOB.
Corporate beancounters say "no more temps", also "no new hires".
Now I'm to fill out another elebenty pages of intrusive nonsense
to take another step backward in my work history
to drive other people's cars across town
being shuttled thereto in vanfuls of people
with whom communication is difficult if not impossible.
Foxtrot Mike Lima.

Here is your genocidal psychosis o' the day: "Most of Venezuela’s poor are better off now than they were before the Bolivarian Revolution of Hugo Chavez and Nicolas Maduro." Because starving to death and murdering each other over a roll of toilet paper which doesn't even exist is so much better than American capitalist supermarkets full of everything.

Remember, peasant, private citizens using personal firearms to halt or prevent mass public shootings is a paranoidfantasythatneverhappens. Michael G. observes, "Meanwhile the Washington state government and gun controllers are working hard to make sure this doesn't happen again."

"In a very unusual move, the Oregon Supreme Court has certified the highly flawed ballot title for IP 44, the 'lock up your self defense' measure, without even waiting for the Attorney General to defend her title language." BUT "WORK WITHIN THE SYSTEM".

"The Cook County Sheriff's Office in Illinois will start to enforce the Cook County 'assault weapons' ban within the borders of the Village of Northbrook.... The local laws conflict with state laws...." BUT "WORK WITHIN THE SYSTEM".

It was said, at the time of her passing, that with the death of Margaret Thatcher, there were no men left in England. Not quite true. Well maybe it is at that; he's not in England is he? And if he were he'd be in a cell next to Tommy Robinson's, surrounded by the coreligionists of the terrorists he righteously dispatched in honorable battle.

Yeah I guess it's Lighter, because .300 Blackout Blowup Science. -But you know, I can imagine somebody doing that on purpose, sneaking a round into someone else's magazine, because they thought it would be funny to destroy someone's prized possession and maybe maim or kill them in the process. I've worked with that kind of creature at these last several driving jobs. Fortunately most of them are too ignorant to understand, or even access, any of this, and also most of them are probably Prohibited Persons, not that any sane person believes they'd be stopped that way.... Yes I'm growing more cynical and bitter, getting endlessly pooped on by the entire universe has that effect.

Finished Grantville Gazette VIII, skimming over much of it honestly. Resuming The Great Explosion, which I'm also kind of skimming, to be followed by Ringo & Correia's Monster Hunter Memoirs: Saints eARC.

In the Don't Go to College files, Michael G. sends, "You can write off Penn Law School. They've hired a 'Director of Social Justice Programs'. A clear signal that from this point on their diplomas might as well be printed on toilet paper."

"When Sir Robert Peel proposed to organize the police force of London, Englishmen said openly that half a dozen throats cut in Whitechapel every year would be a cheap price to pay for keeping such an instrument of tyranny out of the State’s hands." Now it is openly said, Let’s Kill the FBI While We Can.

I keep telling you to think about the kind of serial rapists who don't want you able to defend yourself.

Michael G. sends, "Math professor says learning math can harm society. It can lead people to believe there is an objective reality, and base their decisions on that rather than their emotions." And all-y'all are going into how much debt to have this sewage pumped into your brains?

A year or three ago a "refugees welcome" activist in the place where one of those European countries used to be was raped and murdered by the "refugees" she welcomed. Not sure if this is the same case or another. Or this or this or these. Comes now even more of the same. It's hard to feel sympathy for people who are, to quote the film Jaws, "lining up to be a hot lunch."

This sort of thing is why more people are building their own ARs on unregistered 80% receivers. 1911s and 10/22s now too, and Kalashnikov receiver flats, and likely more I'm not aware of, to say nothing of private sales despite unenforceable and illegitimate prohibitions. And there's alwaysanotherway.

But remember, peasant, if you have nothing to hide, they have nothing to fear. -Now I've brushed up against the excuses made in the article in my own fictional future history, but in that universe, police-as-we-know-and-fear-and-hate-them do not exist.

Stacking the deck in Utah-of-all-places, where a "school safety" commision "refuses to even consider hardening the targets" and, as usual, blames and punishes everyone who isn't hurting people. Adding the Utah Shooting Sports Council to my front and links pages, and subscribing to their email alerts.

Random: I am reminded that John Moses Browning was a true master of mechanical design. His elegant .22 rifle makes a Ruger 10/22 look complicated. -But for practical reasons I would rather have the 10/22. Naturally people want Nice Things, but some things are too nice to use and what's the point of that?

I think this one belongs here below the Lighter line. Blogbrother SMLE Fan and I both hate Microsoft for a number of reasons - spyware, malware, hostageware, Bill Gates' enmity to natural human rights as ennumerated in our Constitution, and just plain crappy products. In my case I abandoned Microsoft years ago, after the last time Windows barfed all over its own registry and took some of my Stuff with it, prompting my switch to Linux Mint, which, barring the recent loss of well over a decade's worth of bookmarks (which might have been a hardware error with a salvaged hard drive (and against future such incidents precautions are now being taken)), has been far more stable. We've even come up with our own little acronym, LILBATT: Linux Is Looking Better All The Time. Now SMLE Fan sends the Get Woke, Go Broke o' the Day. Compare to Starbucks.

Monster Hunter Memoirs: Saints, by John Ringo in Larry Correia's Monster Hunter International universe: "The undead were pressing forward, a solid wall of red eyes and grasping hands. When they got under the range we could fire grenades, we switched to kinetic but 5.56 barely pisses off wights. The vamps had their fangs out. I looked down and there was a f***ing Siamese cat with enormously long incisors. It looked like a baby saber-tooth tiger. I think it might have been a f***ing cat vampire. A vampire cat. Was that even possible? That was just too wrong to begin to describe. It was even sort of cool looking."

Michael G. sends again with the United Nations. "Illicit small arms are also used against United Nations peacekeeping forces." Yeah, well, maybe if those "peacekeepers" stopped raping children people would have fewer reasons to shoot them... and I'm reminded again of the very early days of Project Appleseed, when the "fun" targets simulated UN armored vehicles and the points on them which are vulnerable to conventional rifle fire.

Then from campus he sends "Minn State has counselors on standby for students traumatized by diversity training. I think most people would take that as a clue that there might be something wrong with the mandatory diversity training."

The "laws" are wrong and those who enforce them are evil, even when they enforce them against your enemies. Foreign Correspondent Jacob N., Trapped in New York, explains: "A progressive lefty associate of mine, who owns a bar and has had the same kind of BS complaint filed against him through his local liquor board, which ended in a 30 day suspension of his license, is gloating over this. And when I pointed out the foolishness of his glee, and the idiocy of these very laws, WHICH HE HIMSELF has campaigned to change, his response was 'well, Trump is a gangster and deserves it.' There’s just no communication possible with the other side any more. Here’s a guy who I thought was pretty intelligent, who has been a victim of the surveillance state and overbearing bureaucracy, and he’ll still be shocked and angry when the next stupid complaint is lodged against him."

Not unrelated, "SJW outrage mob goes after woman with no connection to their outrage. When pursuing the thought criminal dujour, it doesn't matter if you focus on the person who actually did what you consider to be a crime. The most virtuous person is the one who screams their hate the loudest." Note also how Twitter "found that there was no violation of Twitter Rules against abusive behavior".

Abortion... I remain anti-prohibition, because that always ends up as the greater evil. Since the news came out about Planned Parenthood's baby body parts for sale - fresh, my position has shifted some, but remains close to what I wrote years ago. More to ponder. -Anyway in 21st Century America there is no excuse to not use contraception in consensual intercourse... and non-consensual should be a public-hanging offense in any case.

I demand jail time or a noose for any hypocritical thief-with-a-badge who ever "confiscated" an "illegal" knife, and for any prosecutor-persecutor or unstable-freak-in-black-robes who upheld such bigotry.

Pretty sure these aren't American government troops, but if they are, it makes me feel better about my odds. If that's the kind of "training" they'll be sending against us. Nor is this the first such example; there was some SWAT sociopath with a month's-rent EoTech on backward, a copette with a AR magazine in backward, and more recently some donut-muncher holding an MP5 by the pistol grip and buttstock and peering through a probably-no-magnification sight while hiding behind a tax-funded vehicle. If y'all have links to those handy, send them along through the "comment" link below, I don't have the energy to hunt them down now.

Still upset with Trump about that "due process later" thing but then he goes and does stuff like this.

Foreign Correspondent Jacob N., Trapped in New York, sends: "More useless feel good crap. In many places, the trendiest environmental crap is to push for bans on plastic drinking straws. Once again, these consumer oriented bans are nearly worthless and do nothing except increase costs for the individual. The biggest chunk of plastic waste in the ocean, according to the above article: abandoned industrial fishing gear. And that ain’t getting solved by banning drinking straws."

He then expands on the Wilder book-banning: "So apparently, the Little House on the Prairie series is now to be condemned as racist. But we should be happy, because they aren’t saying outright to burn it in the public square just yet. These books are historical fiction, and the attitudes expressed by the characters (who are based on real people, mind you) are those that were common back then. But Laura Ingalls Wilder (whose character and in real life was far from a racist and often questioned her parents’ attitude toward the Native Americans and blacks) must be a racist because she wrote about racist people accurately. And of course, had she suppressed the societal racism of her childhood, she would still be condemned for presenting an image of the past that ignored patriarchal white supremacist colonialism."

Gun Confiscation Ballot Measure Dead, in this horrible place. But the anti-self-defense perverts always come back. -Even I, who am constantly underemployed and broke and worrying about money, sent money to the Oregon Firearms Federation. What have you done for the Cause?

How am I supposed to tell the difference between one costumedsociopath and another? Why should a reasonable and rational person not see them all as immediate threats and act accordingly?

I demand jail time or a noose for any hypocritical thief-with-a-badge who ever "confiscated" an "illegal" knife, and for any prosecutor-persecutor or unstable-freak-in-black-robes who upheld such bigotry.

Finished Monster Hunter Memoirs: Saints. Quite tasty, Chad Gardenier's story ends, and we learn more about the infamous MHI Christmas Party Where The World Almost Ended. Beginning The Year's Best Military & Adventure SF 2015, also from Baen naturally, which I may have read before.

Blogbrother SMLE Fan informs me Harlan Ellison has passed away. If you haven't, go hunt down Dangerous Visions, among many other works. He was a creative consultant for Babylon 5 of course, and he was, mostly, the writer of the important Star Trek episode "The City on the Edge of Forever". ...And he was evidently several kinds of a**h***. But he wrote good stories.

Michael G. sends, "Right for the wrong reasons: A Texas anarchist group says 'All cops should die', but only because they want to replace them with something worse."

Then, "Burn the government schools: Where it takes a circuit court of appeals to tell them that strip searching 22 pre-teen girls because one of them might have taken $50 is wrong. Note that the search was made at the suggestion of the school resource officer."

Not sure if Lighter: Sue the sociopaths. Thing is, they'll just write more tickets and rob more innocent people at the point of their government guns.